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Charles D.23
New member | Level 1
10 years ago
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what is cfl.dropboxstatic.com.url

I recently had all my files in a shared folder deleted.  I was able to go in and restore them all, but in the process found one suspicious file, which I did not restore which was "cfl.dropboxstatic.c...
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  • RichardDBX's avatar
    RichardDBX
    9 years ago

    Hi all, apologies for the confusion here — I can help provide some information.

     

    Background:  Dropbox allows you to save website URLs to Dropbox as individual files. For example, if you were to navigate to www.dropbox.com, then drag and drop the URL from the URL bar of your web browser into Dropbox, it would result in a file being created called "www.dropbox.com.url". If you were to click on that file, it will open a new browser window or tab and take you to that page.

     

    Now, about the "cfl.dropboxstatic.com.url" files: we had a temporary issue with our new redesigned website where, in some cases, dragging and dropping a file in your Dropbox on the website (for example, to drag it into another folder, or by accident) would mistakenly add it to your Dropbox as a URL file.

     

    We've since fixed this issue, so you shouldn't see it happen again; however, if you have any of these cfl files in your account, you can simply delete them – they're harmless!

YeahMe's avatar
YeahMe
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Is there a way to turn this feature off?  This happens to me even when I have Dropbox minimized. I'm not purposely dragging and dropping anything. I'm deleting at least 4 to 5 of these cfl.dropboxstatic.com.url files a day.  I see the purpose of this but I don't need it.  It is driving me absolutely nuts and cluttering up my folders.  

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Jane
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8 years ago
Hey YeahMe, I understand that this may not be ideal to you, as you had initially posted on the matter in September, let me follow-up with you in more detail! 
 
As a point of reference, please keep in mind that you can delete these files without harming your account, though in order to pursue a solution on your request, I’d like to reproduce on my end & see if we’re getting the same behavior. Have you been able to recreate the behavior on your end? If so please include the steps you’re following in your next post here. 
 
Thanks & I’ll be awaiting your next reply! 

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